Detection of jet contrails from satellite images

Dieter Meinert

doi:10.1117/12.172519

1 February 1994 Detection of jet contrails from satellite images

Dieter Meinert

Proceedings Volume 2093, Substance Identification Analytics; (1994) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.172519
Event: Substance Identification Technologies, 1993, Innsbruck, Austria

Abstract

In order to investigate the influence of modern technology on the world climate it is important to have automatic detection methods for man-induced parameters. In this case the influence of jet contrails on the greenhouse effect shall be investigated by means of images from polar orbiting satellites. Current methods of line recognition and amplification cannot distinguish between contrails and rather sharp edges of natural cirrus or noise. They still rely on human control. Through the combination of different methods from cloud physics, image comparison, pattern recognition, and artificial intelligence we try to overcome this handicap. Here we will present the basic methods applied to each image frame, and list preliminary results derived this way.

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Dieter Meinert "Detection of jet contrails from satellite images", Proc. SPIE 2093, Substance Identification Analytics, (1 February 1994); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.172519

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